minor key

“Awful Sound” begins in a minor key, with a clackety, rumbling beat.

This is the first English publication of Comedy in a Minor Key, a slim and poignantly titled novel.

It is as though the term 'dominant' when applied to a Minor key were made to mean the dominant of the relative Major key.

Even before I knew how to use my tongue, my ear appreciated the difference between the major and the minor key.

Thus he sang in a high, minor key, with sudden drops to lower notes and inflections.

Very nice months they were—only one cloud worth mention in the blue; only one phrase in a minor key.

"They hate us; they mock us, and our children court them," droned another in a minor key.